<div dir="ltr">Ethics and Technology actually amplify each other.<div><br></div><div>It takes ethical/courageous leadership to make technology work in organizations full of criminals, especially when it exposes fraud.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Murigi / Stanley Muraya</div><div><br></div><div><span style="line-height:13px;color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><span style="line-height:20px"><font size="1"><b>"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city." Prov 16:32</b></font></span><span style="font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Bitange Ndemo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Ngigi,<br>
I am reading Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen's book, An Uncertain Glory India<br>
and its Contradictions (recommended to me by one of the listers here after<br>
my India trip). They have dwelt on India's corruption in many of the<br>
chapters and they conclude that only technology will save India from its<br>
endemic corruption. They think technology too will help change behaviour.<br>
Indeed even the western world, technology plays a big role in behavioural<br>
change. Indeed if we moved to digital platforms, much of our values will<br>
improve.<br>
<br>
Our problem is that we never get to study the impact of these new<br>
technologies. Preliminary finding from my current research on the impact<br>
of mobile money show that digital payments have to a large extent dealt<br>
with petty corruption. As a former accounting officer, I can confirm to<br>
you that the switch by government to RTGS really undermined corporate<br>
corruption. We cannot hope that religion will change our rotten<br>
behaviours. This only happened in Europe during the reformation period.<br>
Our preachers now want money than entrenching morals.<br>
<br>
<br>
Ndemo.<br>
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> You can take a man from the village, but not the village out of him.<br>
> Behaviour, is a really hard thing to change.<br>
><br>
> If anything, technology exercebates bad behaviour for the already badly<br>
> behaved.<br>
><br>
> Kiriamiti, with a gun, could walk to a bank and steal a sack-full of<br>
> money.<br>
> With modern technology, you can steal a truck load without leaving your<br>
> bedroom and not think twice that Kiriamiti served 20yrs in prison.<br>
><br>
> Before mobile technology, if you had a problem with someone, you walked<br>
> upto them and had a one-one talk. Today, you just send them insults on txt<br>
> and before we know it we are crafting laws to protect us online.<br>
><br>
> Not long ago we had two politicians put digital cameras in their hotel<br>
> rooms and record their escapades which ended up being plastered infront of<br>
> their families.<br>
><br>
> That woman(the on in the VW) will learn,and quickly, the advantages of a<br>
> Digital camera on her vehicle.<br>
><br>
> Next time she causes a mishap just the threat that she can brandish her<br>
> evidence digitally will be used against her unlucky victims.<br>
><br>
> Technology, makes crime convenient, just as it makes the rest of our<br>
> lives!<br>
><br>
> Waithaka Ngigi<br>
><br>
> Alliance Technologies<br>
> Nairobi, Kenya<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.A1.io" target="_blank">www.A1.io</a><br>
> On 4 Jan 2014 10:02, "ICT Researcher" <<a href="mailto:ict.researcher@yahoo.com">ict.researcher@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> She would have to think twice before accusing the next driver.<br>
>> Technology<br>
>> has changed her behaviour.<br>
>><br>
>> ------------------------------<br>
>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 9:33 AM MSK Ohaga JB wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> >I do share @Ngigi's opinion, seeking technological solutions to all our<br>
>> bad<br>
>> >behavior is a favourite pastime of technological determinists, however,<br>
>> we<br>
>> >should view technology as instruments that aid in making the world a<br>
>> better<br>
>> >n easier place to live in. So wht we need is behavior change in our<br>
>> midst<br>
>> n<br>
>> >basic good manners, so that someone does not back up into your car n<br>
>> then<br>
>> >accuse you of having hit them.<br>
>> ><br>
>> >In all fairness, does Doc think that the lady in question won't falsely<br>
>> >accuse the next driver that she does that to just because she already<br>
>> met<br>
>> >one guy whose car was fitted with digital cams? I really doubt it...<br>
>> >On 04 Jan 2014 9:20 AM, "Ngigi Waithaka" <<a href="mailto:ngigi@at.co.ke">ngigi@at.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >> Aren't you scared of having technology being pervasive in every facet<br>
>> of<br>
>> >> our lives?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Add to that the fact that our Governments don't shy away from peeping<br>
>> into<br>
>> >> our privaye lives through all these gadgets we have.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Its quite a slippery road.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I believe in a simple digital world, but not simpler!<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Waithaka Ngigi<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Alliance Technologies<br>
>> >> Nairobi, Kenya<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> <a href="http://www.A1.io" target="_blank">www.A1.io</a><br>
>> >> On 4 Jan 2014 08:55, "Barrack Otieno" <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Happy New Year Dr. Ndemo, i agree, technology will help a lot, ATM's<br>
>> are<br>
>> >> already doing this we should extend the same every where.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Best Regards<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Bitange Ndemo <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a><br>
>> >wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >>> Yesterday morning as I drove to the city, my trip was disrupted by a<br>
>> >>> woman<br>
>> >>> driving ahead of me. She was most likely driving a stick shift<br>
>> Toyota<br>
>> >>> when at Muthaiga Market (has a small hill as you join on to<br>
>> Parklands)<br>
>> >>> her<br>
>> >>> car slowly sled backwards resting on the front of my VW bug. She<br>
>> >>> realized<br>
>> >>> her mistake too late but when she came out, she said to me<br>
>> "Mheshimiwa<br>
>> >>> umenigonga kutoka nyuma" (Honorable you just hit me from behind). I<br>
>> just<br>
>> >>> had to smile as I opened my door. The vehicles behind us sped off.<br>
>> I<br>
>> >>> knew I had no witness.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Her car had minor damage and as she prepared to call the police, I<br>
>> >>> encouraged her to do it quick since this is a simple matter. She<br>
>> then<br>
>> >>> says to me "a simple matter". I said yes. What do you mean she<br>
>> >>> retorted.<br>
>> >>> It is simple because my car is digital, I said. Digital! what do<br>
>> >>> exactly<br>
>> >>> mean she says. My car has digital cameras all round and when the<br>
>> police<br>
>> >>> arrive, I just will show them exactly what went on. She stops<br>
>> making<br>
>> her<br>
>> >>> call and started to look at my car carefully. This time I tell her<br>
>> that<br>
>> >>> I<br>
>> >>> am calling the police. She then turns to me as says "this digital<br>
>> >>> business is not good, can we just agree that we just cover our<br>
>> costs".<br>
>> I<br>
>> >>> said no. This is the very reason why I mounted a digicam on my car.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> She starts to plead with me. She offers to cover my cost. I said<br>
>> no<br>
>> but<br>
>> >>> asked her to put it in writing that she was on the wrong.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Lesson 1: Technology will help us correct our values.<br>
>> >>> Lesson 2: If all our PSV vehicles are mounted with cameras, we shall<br>
>> >>> gather good data to hep us deal with road carnage<br>
>> >>> Lesson 3: There are other benefits that will accrue if car<br>
>> manufacturers<br>
>> >>> were to in-build cameras just like mobile phones.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Ndemo.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>><br>
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